{"id":1823,"date":"2007-11-06T22:47:17","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T22:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2007\/11\/06\/windows-live-writer-2008-is-now-available\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T22:47:17","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T22:47:17","slug":"windows-live-writer-2008-is-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/windows-live-writer-2008-is-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Live Writer 2008 is now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first version of <a href=\"http:\/\/get.live.com\/writer\/overview\">Windows Live Writer<\/a> is now available.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been using the betas for a long time, and I think it&#8217;s a great application (and it&#8217;s free).&nbsp; I use it to write all of my blog posts.&nbsp; If it weren&#8217;t for Live Writer, I wouldn&#8217;t have written nearly so many blog posts.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com\/blog\/cns!D85741BB5E0BE8AA!1442.entry\">Windows Live Writer: Out of Beta<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who tried out the beta releases of Writer over the last year and gave us feedback. Over 1.5 million of you downloaded our <a href=\"http:\/\/windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com\/blog\/cns!D85741BB5E0BE8AA!1421.entry\">last beta release<\/a>, and your input helped make Writer the product it is today.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Our goal <a href=\"http:\/\/windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com\/blog\/cns!D85741BB5E0BE8AA!174.entry\">from the start<\/a> has been to help make blogging more powerful, intuitive, and fun for everyone. Today, we\u2019re proud to announce that <b>Windows Live Writer 2008<\/b> is now available!  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/writer.live.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"41\" alt=\"Download Writer 2008\" src=\"http:\/\/byfiles.storage.msn.com\/y1pE9h6adBL5paKLSQvF_g7MZ1-TB7nRIjNdP2F_SxloE7FEgPj94y5i4VSqbramI2e\" width=\"129\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br>Windows Live Writer 2008 (version 12.0.1366.1026)  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com\/blog\/cns!D85741BB5E0BE8AA!1442.entry\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There are lots of great plugins for Live Writer as well.  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.live.com\/default.aspx?pl=8\">Windows Live Gallery<\/a>  \n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wlwplugins.com\/\">Windows Live Writer Plugins<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I use this one for doing syntax highlighting: <a href=\"http:\/\/wlwplugins.com\/syntax-highlighter-code-formatting-for-wlw.php\">Syntax Highlighter<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>At some point I&#8217;ll have to try the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edholloway.com\/archive\/2006\/09\/26\/Ink-Blog-Plugin-goes-Gold_2100_.aspx\">Ink Blog Plugin<\/a> on my tablet PC. <\/p>\n<p>I also like <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jmstall\/\">Mike Stall&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.live.com\/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=91093902-65b8-4237-9bff-524aec1369a3&amp;pl=8&amp;bt=9\">Paste From Console<\/a> that I finally got around to trying tonight.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve tweaked the following parameters.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>ColorizeHtmlFormat:&nbsp; &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;color: rgb(0,0,160)&#8221;&gt;{0}&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;color: rgb(164,0,0)&#8221;&gt;{1}&lt;\/span&gt;  <\/p>\n<p>HtmlFormat:&nbsp; &lt;table bgcolor=&#8221;dddddd&#8221; border=0&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;pre&gt;{0}&lt;\/pre&gt;&lt;\/td&gt;&lt;\/tr&gt;&lt;\/table&gt;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the output looks like.&nbsp; I may have to play with the colors some more, but it&#8217;s a good start.<\/p>\n<table bgcolor=\"#dddddd\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<pre>Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]\n(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.\n\n<b><span>C:\\Documents and Settings\\Buck Hodges&gt;<\/span><\/b><span>dir<\/span>\n Volume in drive C is PROGRAMS\n Volume Serial Number is 342D-79C3\n\n Directory of C:\\Documents and Settings\\Buck Hodges\n\n10\/19\/2007  06:30 PM    &lt;DIR&gt;          .\n10\/19\/2007  06:30 PM    &lt;DIR&gt;          ..\n07\/04\/2007  02:32 PM    &lt;DIR&gt;          .thumbnails\n12\/19\/2004  10:12 PM    &lt;DIR&gt;          Desktop\n03\/02\/2006  06:18 PM    &lt;DIR&gt;          My Documents\n09\/23\/2004  06:55 PM    &lt;DIR&gt;          Start Menu\n12\/25\/2003  04:48 PM    &lt;DIR&gt;          WINDOWS\n               6 File(s)        357,965 bytes\n               8 Dir(s)  42,552,401,920 bytes free\n\n<b><span>C:\\Documents and Settings\\Buck Hodges&gt;<\/span><\/b><\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Mike has also written a series of posts on various aspects of how to write a plugin for Live Writer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jmstall\/archive\/2007\/07\/26\/developing-live-writer-plugins-with-edit-and-continue.aspx\">Developing Live Writer PlugIns with Edit-and-Continue<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jmstall\/archive\/2007\/10\/27\/wix-script-for-installing-live-writer-plugins.aspx\">WiX Script for installing Live Writer Plugins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jmstall\/archive\/2007\/10\/29\/creating-msis-for-live-writer-plugins.aspx\">Creating MSIs for Live Writer PlugIns<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jmstall\/archive\/2007\/10\/30\/how-to-add-options-to-live-writer-plugins.aspx\">How to add Options to Live Writer PlugIns<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:ca66d672-06e5-4128-aa9e-6b2116c47e1d\" style=\"padding-right: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/windows%20live%20writer\" rel=\"tag\">windows live writer<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first version of Windows Live Writer is now available.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been using the betas for a long time, and I think it&#8217;s a great application (and it&#8217;s free).&nbsp; I use it to write all of my blog posts.&nbsp; If it weren&#8217;t for Live Writer, I wouldn&#8217;t have written nearly so many blog posts. Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The first version of Windows Live Writer is now available.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been using the betas for a long time, and I think it&#8217;s a great application (and it&#8217;s free).&nbsp; I use it to write all of my blog posts.&nbsp; If it weren&#8217;t for Live Writer, I wouldn&#8217;t have written nearly so many blog posts. 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